Dagger's End

Chapter 1

Up In The Stars

It was night time, the sky was lit up with stars. Ponyville was fast asleep, well, most of them at least. Twilight Sparkle, in her library/bedroom, was looking in her telescope vigilantly, as she was studing the sparkling stars as they each twinkled in the night. She took notes of all the wonders that was occuring in space, as things like a shooting stars zooming, meteor showering, and astroids following their own paths slowly. Twilight yawned and was getting awfuly tired at staring, and studding the night sky. She looked in her telescope once more, then was heading to her own bed, where Spike was in his own bed as well. Twilight fluffed up her pillow, and pulled up her blanket and closed her eyes very, very, VERY, slowly as if she was really ill.

But up in the sky something was happening, a great big explosion occurred in the sky. But it wasn't loud, nor was it very bright. It sounded like a bell that was blown by a gentle breez. Suddenly from the explosion, from the sky, it grew to be a star. Except it grew bigger, and bigger as if it was getting closer, and closer. The "star" was getting close... very close... but it was now shrinking to what it seems a size of a carrage. The burning object was coming fast to the Everfree Forest, until it made a loud thump on the ground. No explosions, no fire, and the ground did not shake. What fell in one of the swampy lakes in the Everfree Forest was a pod of some sort. It had a dark silver blue color, and it looked undamaged. It's shape was an oval, and in it was a pony, in fact it was a stalion. The pony woke up with such shock, and was scrambling to open the door of the pod. He got out, and some how was able to push the pod out of the swamp. He pushed it out of the mucky water as if it was as light as an empty cart that would hold apples. As the stalion pushed it out of the water he gasped for air, and kept pushing it to a more stable area where the pod won't roll off. After that he opened a hatch that was on the side of the pod, and pressed a buttion. The pod then had three metal bars, and circle feet in order to keep the pod from rolling off. As the pod stablized itself from the muddy ground, the stalion was looking at all directions scaning its area as if it was an andriod of some sort, then acted normally and walked to a near by tree.

He pulled out a blade that was about five feet tall total, the handle was a foot tall. The stallion stabbed the ground, placing his blade into the dirt and sat next to it. The stalion was olive drab green, his mane was black as the shadow, and his cutie mark was a red square shaped fist, that looked like it was going for an upper cut. He also had a scar on his right eye. On him were some armor plates that were shaped like most of his body parts, except the armor was separeted from each other creating a crease between the two parts that would move, as well as most parts of the armor of his hips, and armor wouldn't cover his legs or his neck. The stalion had no wings, nor horn, just looked like an avrage earth pony. The stallion then removed his helmet that had a visor on it, and you couldn't see though his visor. The color of his armor, and helmet was dark blood red. As he took off the helmet, a howl had occurred and he quickly droped the helmet on the mud below him. He picked up his blade that looked like it would weight in about 80 pounds or 100 pounds, but he picked it up quickly as if it was like any other sword.

He looked to his sides sharply and saw nothing then got back up, and looked around. Then he herd snarls, and wood hitting against each other. Timber wolves showed up out of some bushes and shown themselves in the moon light. Dagger, which is the stalions name, held his sword firmly (not gunna tell you how because it is your decision how you want him to hold it) and swung directly into the muddy ground. Imedently a wall of rocks and gravel formed into a messed up wall starting at Dagger then a few fifteen feet to the timber wolves and beyond. There were five of the timber wolves now down to three. The two timber wolves were in pieces of twigs now, but the other three timber wolves were getting ready to out flank their prey. Dagger, was then surrounded by the timber wolves, and soon held his heavy blade upside down, and dug straight into the dirt. The blade went in, creating a small wave of rocks and gravel surrounding Dagger. The timber wolves flew up a few hoofs in the air, and were hit by near by objects such as trees, or boulders. Dagger looked around him carefully, making sure nothing was moving, or that would be a threat to him. He gathered himself, and his helmet and looked at his helmet where the reflection would show. His eyes were johnquil yellow, and had that scar on him. But the scar stared to glow a light blood red. Indicating he was still in danger, he looked again as he herd the twigs and trunks of what used to be timber wolfs, colliding each other and creating a bigger version of a timber wolf. Dagger looked up at the monster as it was drooling tree sap from it's mouth. He then took his left front hoof, which had some sort of wrist band that held six golden, eyes sized, shaped balls, and hit his hoof with all his might on the mud, that then splaterd across his face. A yellow echo of waves went around him as if he hit the water serface. As the waves faded away, as they kepting drifting farther and farther, the giant timber wolf was moving slowly until it came to the point to where it would stop moving or for that mater breathing, if it had any lungs for that matter. Dagger quickly moved with his enormous sized blade, and charged. He jumped up in the air and made huge nasty swings across the giant timber wolf. He made sure to hit the 'sweet spots' of the timber wolf's body parts, such as the eyes, legs, arms, and ,if it even had one, the gut. With in seven long seconds, Dagger jumped right off the frozen timber wolf, and landed in the gushy mud. He then walked away from the giant timber wolf, as he hand done this the giant timber wolf exploded with twigs, barks, and trunks scattering all over the place. The timber wolfes litterally recollected itself and all five, almost put together timber wolfs, sprinted out of the area, scared, and wimpering.

It was morning, and Dagger was up and about. He grabed his blade, that he set in it's own holster kept behind a glass, and put it on his back were magnets would specifically only hold on to the blade and nothing else. He walked out of his dimly lit pod, and started to scout out for food. He came across a river and saw some fish swimming in it. He looked at it with anticipation of hunger. He raised his hoof pointing at one of the fish and 'zzzzzip!' a small, metal, wire made, rope came dashing out of the gaget under Dagger's hoof, and on the tip of the rope was a mini claw that then snagged the unluck prey, then came back to Dagger, quick as a wip. Dagger was too hungry to properly cook the fish, or take out it's bones. So he then just took a gaping bite out of the fishes' head, and chewed with his mouth closed. "Hmmm... Forgot to check if these things are even edible." Said Dagger carelessly. He swallowed and had his other hoof scan for any signs of sickness, or parasites that could harm him. A red light, coming on one of his front side hoof, scaned the fish body as it was still moving a bit. He then read his screen on the side of his hoof. "huh, a little something, but nothing I'll have to worry about." said Dagger as he kept eating the fish. After that, he then decided to follow the river that he knew would eventually lead him somewhere with more life or even possibly more civilized place. "The weather here sure is plesant. Wonder if I can find some sort of intellegence species or something." Dagger said curiously. About fourty minutes pasted he has finnally found civilization out from the savage, harsh forest of the Everfree Forest. "I better use caution, who knows how these guys will act if they saw a new life fourm on their planet. Also hopefuly they won't get sick just me being around them." Dagger then remeberd one of his history lessions at his edjucation center on a planet (whitch is not his home planet). "I remembered that plauge once... Um... the sneez snake desise was is?" Dagger trying to remember his history. "Bah! For get it, I can't really remember it. I'll just put on my helmet and walk along." Dagger said with hope. As he walked into Ponyvill, the ponies were then in shock that they saw a very different pony. A pony that wore shiny armor that no pony has ever seen. Some ponys just went to their own bisness, while others were stuned to see something very suspicous, or unusal. "Hey, these guys look like my race. Wonder if they even speak my language?" Wondered Dagger. He then walked up to a near by pony and spoke with his helmet on. "Dakka, tush! Rosh, meh ik poshpire?" Dagger said trying to say it in a greating, friendly, way, but being cautious not to scare the pony away. "AAAAAAAH!" screamed the pink and light green mained pony as she ran away to suggar cupe corner. "I'll take that as a no..." Dagger said in a embaressed, and dissapointed way. Some ponies were confused of this stranger, and were now very worried. Dagger who still had his helmet created a drop of sweat at the side of his head, hoping no guards of some sort would chase him out, kill him, or even interrogate him. He then walked quickly, away from the scene. After that he was walking towards the center of Ponyvill, where everyone just simply stared at him, looking at him as if he was a pony who would terrorize the place.

Twilight woke up from her sleep, it was 9:30am in the morning, and she herd some ponies making some frightend sounds. She looked out her window and saw the reasion. A blood red armor colored stalion with his helmet on, was cautiously walking to other poinies, speaking in different languages that no pony knew. "Goof da?" "Rooka da?" "Shiiiiiip spits zue?" "Ploshma costma?" Dagger was really just waisting his time with these ponies speaking to them in different luangages. Dagger's helmet then alerted him of a life form that was hiding in a tree. He darted, and fixed his eyes on the purple unicorn, who was in quite a shock. Twilight then jumped off the window and curlled up in her bed with her blanket. Spike, who was snoring was unaware of what was happening, "SPIKE!" Twilight screemed in a wispering manner trying not to get the red armored stranger's attention. Spike woke up slowly and looked up at Twilight, "SPIKE! Take a letter to Princess Celestia." Twilight said as she was still in shock of what was happening, and keeping her voulume to a minimum.

Dagger walked up to what looked like to him a door that connected to a tree. "Huh... Guess I'm gunna find some trouble getting back to my planet. At least these guys don't live under a rock, but instead a tree." Dagger joking to himself.

Out of the bloom, a rainbow mained pegasus tackled the armored stalion to the ground. "Who are you, and what are you doing at our friend's place!?" said Ranbow Dash who was trying to show some bravery to others, but had some pain after hiting someone who was as tough as a rock, that had smooth metal all over it.

"Woah! So you guys speak english?" Dagger said confused. Twilight then poked her head out a little out of the window seeing Dash has things under controll, for now... "Yea, we speak english tin head!" Rainbow Dash saying in some anger but also in confusion, BUT mostly in anger considering it was probably an insult to ponyvill. "Well, now to answer your question..." Dagger said in a go happy maner. "knocking on the door..." Dagger said flatly as he still has his helmet on. Rainbow then slighty blushed in embaressment, seeing that it wasn't a threat. "Can you get off of me now? Or do you want to make this a scene?..." Dagger said a little embaressed, he doesn't like it when females are dominating him unless they are the dominat of their own kind. "Oh, right... Sorry! Ponys here aren't used to seeing a pony wearing tacky armor, glasses that are on a helmet, and a big sword-" Rainbow Dash was cut off by Dagger, as Dagger was a little ticked off as she insulted him and his armor which in his race means a lot. But he quickly brushed it off and corrected Rainbow "Its a knife, not a sword." Said Dagger flatly. Rainbow Dash paused for a moment looking at this pony as if he was stupid "Um... yea... Do you even know what a knife even is? Because lastime I checked a knife was small." Dagger then took this insult to his own hands... literally... He took his left hoof and slamed it hard against the ground reveiling the yellow waves on the ground. All ponys stopped imediently and froze. Other ponys that were at a safe distace watched in awe. Dagger tossed Rainbow to a cart of tomatos. Seven seconds had passed and Rainbow was all covered in tomato juice. Dagger laughed as he saw this "Aaah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!... oh! That was good! Now listen here missy, if your kind is female... Don't you ever insult my knife ever again." Dagger giving her a warning hoof to her, then walking towards Twilight who managed to slowly walk out of her library. Twilight shook a little, seeing now this stalion was civilized enough to talk to... well... almost. "Um... Hello? Can I help you?" Twilight trying to smile as best as she could. "Yes I belive you are what your kind call you, 'the librarian?'" Dagger said as friendly as he could say it. Dagger isn't the get happy to go guy, he was often a dull, same as usall life kind of a guy, trying to be like every one else guy. "Um... yes? Is this some sort of joke?" Twilight said confused. "How should I say this so I don't scare anyone away maner... I'm not from this plannet?" Dagger said unasure of him self if he chose his words carefully. As what you would expect from like any alien movie, Twilight put a hoof to her mouth and chukled, then the chuckle became a laughter. And then she wiped a tear off her face after laughing. Dagger was very displeased with this, "Great... Your one of those specices that some or most of you don't even belive in living civilzation in space. Well, how can I prove to you? Like what I did to your friend there wasn't enough." Twilight then noticed that the stalion doen't even have a horn on his head, or any artifacts that she has read in her hundreds piles of books. Twilight was then supprised, he has a point that of what he did to RD was enough to show for, who got up and shook off all the tomato juices off of herself. Twilight then thought about it quickly and decided to invite him over to an early brunch. "How about we settle this with my leader, and some of my 'guardians' for a meal get together? Then we can probably help you with the situation aferwards." Twilight not sure how to aproch this problem, and just treat him as a guest scince no pony has ever seen him before. Dagger just simply nodded.